Mr. Marcus Matthews:

RISPA was founded by 13 regional ISPs, as I said in the opening statement, to represent the broader industry. There have been previous successful attempts in which two previous trade associations were set up. When the national broadband plan process started, the industry as a whole was very active and spent an inordinate amount of time filling out paperwork and engaging in consultations, much of which was to no avail. This time around in terms of the industry having a third run of it, there was a feeling that we had done all this before when we submitted all those reports. In 2015, an independent report by the eminent economist, Colm McCarthy, went to the Department but nothing came of it. With RISPA it was a case of those who were willing to go again.